The Spirit and the Letter of the Law

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Romeo

We will all go to hell if we can’t make the distinction between the LETTER of the LAW and the SPIRIT of the LAW!

For example, the difference between peaceful Muslims and ISIS extremists is exactly that. Whereas a peaceful religion follower would use the text to allow others to enjoy life the ones applying BLINDLY the LETTER of the holly books will end up hurting others. In the end it is clear that they will end up in hell as God never intends to hurt people.

Punishments based on law infringements, even more important the ones we impose as “examples” for others in order to install mass fear are equally damning and usually on long term have exactly the opposite effect.

Walls Building Warning

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Romeo

To anyone building walls around anything, playground, house, country … Learn the lesson Ray learned the hard way 😉 . He ended up begging for help from his father. Will your father be there to get you out of your country walls? Hyperventilating? 😉

Goodbye Stephen Hawking

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Romeo

Today a great mind departed from this reality maybe joining a different universe. Stephen Hawking brought light of knowledge to anyone wanting to know.
Best way to remember him would be by reading his work http://www.hawking.org.uk/

I personally intend to read his book My brief history

Las Vegas Sun Oct 1, 2017

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Romeo

My heart and soul pours out for all the souls lost and injured in Vegas.

For a while I’ve avoided being caught in this continuous show of human madness out there. Where do we go from here? What is next?

I can’t talk for any one of you but I do know what I will be doing, I’ll be refusing to live in fear and be looking for a solution of this complex problem, a problem which is unfortunately mostly of our own making. Whatever the solution will it be it must not use or even imply violence of any kind and not infringe in our liberties. Can we find it? I believe we can. We really need to “get out of the mental box we live in” and experience new abilities drawn from factual knowledge and empathy for all living things. All types of social organization we tried failed to keep us safe and allow us to grow at the speed we are able to, it is time for us to search for something better for all living things humans and beyond.

The issue is this will not be of any use to any of the people already dead from our own madness. Guns are felt as simple solutions for complex problems, but there is not such thing as simple solution for complex problems we are only lying to ourselves.

Info: Google search — Google Search Cached as of Oct 2, 2017

Science day march, what did we miss…?

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Romeo

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozle tend to persist as the new one rise.”

From Book: Demon-Haunted World
By: Carl Sagan

My take:

The biggest problem we have at this point in time is to distinguish between fact and fiction and even more important the mixture of the two.

I’ve wrote an article some time ago about it called “Fact Fiction and BS“.

The article is even more important today than it was when I wrote it and I’ll bet its importance will grow exponentially in the future.
But hey, who really cares?
(you should,… though probably almost no one will read this, ever…)

I stand with you, Orlando, Brussels, Paris, Pakistan, and for all people who lost or had their lives destroyed by madness of extremisms

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Romeo

Orlando Florida US Jun 12, 2016, 50 dead 53 injured. People died and got hurt again, is there a way to stop this from happening?

Paris France, Nov 13, 2015, 130 dead and more then 350 injured (source Wikipedia)
San Bernardino California US, Dec 2, 2015, 14 dead and 22 injured (source Wikipedia)
Brussels Belgium, Mar 22, 2016, 35 dead and more than 300 injured (source Wikipedia)
Lahore Pakistan, Mar 27, 2016, 75 dead and more than 300 injured (source Wikipedia)
Orlando Florida US Jun 12, 2016, 50 dead 53 injured
And then the Sirian Civil War counting to more than 400000 people killed until now with millions pushed to live their lives with mostly nothing
And the list is longer, to long…

I would like to extend my condolences to all the people who lost loved ones in all those tragedies.

In total, in less than a year, we lost 130+14+35+75+50=304 people and destroyed or badly impacted the lives of 350+22+300+300+53=more than 1025 people by a handful of other people who’s minds were twisted by extreme ideas. I can’t even imagine what 400000 dead and millions more displaced means for a time we call ourselves “civilized”.

But by simply stopping here, by only feeling sorry for the loss, would not make much difference for the future. We need to start open our eyes minds and harts to the truth no matter how hard is to find it.

Against all the primal instincts which pushes us to answer the violence with violence the path to a solution include quite a different path. It is said that the definition of insanity is to repeat the same thing again and again without changing anything and expecting different results. If that is true it is also an extreme, and we could tame the definition by excluding the “changing anything” to “changing enough” to reach a realistic goal. The thing is, we all find ourselves in various shades of insanity and need to continuously correct our action to stay out of it.

My personal opinion is that one important root cause, if not the most important one, on all our history, but more important these days is our ability to communicate.

The communication process implies extracting information from our minds, filter it, encode it in speech or words, then transport it over various mediums like airwaves (voice), electromagnetic waves, in networks, or solids, to one or more people, the receivers. The receiver(s) will then attempt to decode the information and (attempt to) re-integrate it in their minds. Both the sender and receiver have different mind contexts and each of those steps can and usually will be subject of errors.

My explanation of the communication process, may look “Rube Goldberg”-is but it is darn simple compared to the full fledged phenomena.

We usually do all this in “automatic” mode, paying little attention or no or little attention to all the possibilities for errors and that is where things break down. We assume we “master” communication, when in fact we kind of suck at it and the consequence of this inability is dire.

These days our abilities to transport information has advanced faster than our ability to process the information we receive (and make sense of it) due all the technological advances. Now we are witnessing the first consequences of this imbalance between our abilities to transport information, and our ability to process it. On top of that, we are unable to distinguish between fact and fiction and our ability to listen and understand other cultures has diminished due to of this informational overload.

All this pushes some of us to drawn in the informational flow, and tumble down into the vortex of madness and extremism.

Carl Sagan had this prescient view, he expressed in his last interview with Charlie Rose. Charlie asks, “What’s the danger of all this…?” referring to the Science and Technology in the hands of the public. Carl answers “We arrange the society based on Science and Technology where nobody understand anything about Science and Technology and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow-out in our faces…” For the full interview (if you didn’t see it yet) check here.

I’m coining this phenomena the “Informageddon” as a derived form of the regular Armageddon, describing a way to screw ourselves big time due our collective madness and stupidity.

Of course, you may say, you can go crazy about it, but nothing would really happen (to others) if there will be no guns. Personally I think we should be able to defend ourselves, however if anyone would own a classic gun can lead to a arms race at the micro social level. All this is good for making bucks on short term but makes no sense on long term. I will discuss more about how to balance the need for self defence and what sort of technology can we use to replace the actual guns. As a Canadian I’m impacted in a slight different way than a US citizen but the problem is actually universal and needs attention.

I’m sure that there is a brighter future ahead of us. Yet the path to it is narrow and not a straight one, but I believe in it. To draw the path to an acceptable future we need to understand the dangers of the new technologies as well as their strengths. As with all other Technological wonders we can use every one of them for both good and bad, the distinction is apparent when we are able to see the big picture on long term.

“In order to be able to harvest the fruits, first we must take care of the roots”

The last two important aspects of the social organization, which can push towards the “Informageddon” are the specialization and competition. Even though both of them are essential for our progress an unhealthy amount or kind of each can hamper the progress.

We can distinguish two types of competition, constructive (or positive) and destructive (or negative). To understand the difference I have to tell you a small story. “Once upon a time there were two neighbours. And they (as with many of us these days) were competing on who had a better life. They both had livestock and were proud of their animals. One day the goat of one of them dies accidentally. In the evening both neighbours pray to God. First one asks God for good health for his family and livestock and wishes the best for his neighbour. He shares some of his goat milk with his neighbour whose goat died . The other neighbour though, prays for his neighbour’s goat to die too so he would not be in the position to be helped as he feels this as humiliating”.

You can see clearly the difference between constructive competition in the first person action and the destructive one from the other person.We can see how for the entire system (the two people together) helping each other leads to a stronger state whereas in the destructive case both would suffer. The problem with the technology is that it speeds up all processes and makes it harder and harder to people to react with long term plans. This inadvertently favours he destructive type of competition.

Please take some time and think how much of the constructive versus destructive competition is promoted more these days? What is the impact on long term of all the secrecy out there and all the actions we are involved in. This is the first step towards a sane future.

For future articles check the “Informageddon” category.

Is this guy inventing the ZPM?

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Romeo

I stumbled on youtube.com on this video recorded from a presentation given by Nassim Haramein presenting a new model for interpreting the world of small (we now brand as Quantum Mechanics) where simply put he presents a model and some calculations supporting the idea that protons are made out of small Black-Holes!

Cool!, Not sure is the model holds water but you have to admit the idea is cool.

However this is not all, Nassim says he works on a device which is able to extract energy directly out of the space itself. This takes me back to a Sci-Fi I love, the Star-Gate series where they talk about an energy source used by some very advanced (and ancient!) civilizations, called ZPM or Zero Point Module. In the flick the ZPM is a sort of battery which can generate an enormous amount of energy being able to power spaceships as large as entire cities for thousands of years. The ZPM “extracts energy from a region of the space”.

Now, you’ll say, well Sci-Fi is some % of “Sci” + some % of “Fi” so it is not exactly real.

Let’s take a look at the history of the “Tablet Computer”, Wikipedia has an article about this where they show that the idea was first floated around since 1951 by Isaac Asimov as a “Calculator Pad” in the novel Foundation. Just take a look at the “pads” used by the different Sci-Fi movies (Star-Treck, and Star-* in general). I found this pintrest pin funny saying “1988 Star-Trck tablet computer presented, 2002 Microsoft introduces a tablet computer and 2010 iPad is introduced”. At the time when those movies were produced the notion of “tablet computer” looke light years away, yet we have them now and they look even damn better than what we imagined only few years ago.

That seem to be the case with multiple “ideas out of their times” which then we realized them one way or another. The most obvious of all is our ability to fly. Given all this, I will not be too surprised if the ZPM can actually be built. Then, buckle-up your sit belts as our reality will really take off. Only if, it would happen for us all…

Even if it does not actually predict any ZPM this article about Black Holes from Stephen Wolfram is cool too.

Bellow Nassim Haramein about this potential new energy source. Will this be successful? I’d like to think so yet only time will tell. He is leading “The Resonance Project” @ http://resonance.is .